![2016 f1 season 2016 f1 season](https://s1.cdn.autoevolution.com/images/news/gallery/mercedes-amg-f1-completes-first-troubling-test-day-at-jerez-photo-gallery_19.jpg)
The German Grand Prix will also be held again in 2016 after its absence this year at the Hockenheimring. "Christmas Eve, I think," Bernie Ecclestone joked, according to the Guardian newspaper. The European Grand Prix will make a return to the Formula 1 calendar in 2016 and it will be held for the first time on the street circuit in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. Malaysia may now be moved to the very end of the schedule, perhaps just before the Abu Dhabi finale, which will now push into early- to mid-December.
![2016 f1 season 2016 f1 season](https://hips.hearstapps.com/autoweek/assets/s3fs-public/_89P1528.jpg)
Sepang had provisionally been paired with the popular night race Singapore, but the British broadcaster Sky said on Friday that Malaysia was not happy with that prospect. After losing the lead of the drivers’ standings following Max Verstappen’s successive victories at Spa and Zandvoort, Monza’s long straights. But that may only be achieved by shifting the Malaysian Grand Prix. Why Hamilton’s 2021 season has echoes of 2016. So it emerges that moves are afoot to restore the full summer break for 2016.
2016 f1 season drivers#
11 constructors and 24 drivers participated in 21 races during the 67th season of the FIA Formula One World Championchip. Mercedes won the championship for constructors.
![2016 f1 season 2016 f1 season](https://www.racefans.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2016-f1-cars.jpg)
Lewis Hamilton was second and Daniel Ricciardo third. "The travelling staff need to have that summer break and if we don't do that, we're going to burn them out or we're going to have to bring in a second crew," said Force India's Bob Fernley at Monza. Nico Rosberg won the 2016 Formula One World Championship for drivers. Rosberg follows him home in second and, as F1 heads to Brazil for the penultimate race of the 2016 season, just 19 points separate the Mercedes drivers. But the team bosses were not impressed with that plan. According to the provisional schedule, the unprecedentedly long 21-race calendar will start later than usual next year, cutting into the summer break.
2016 f1 season driver#
Comfortably the most successful non-Mercedes driver this year, Daniel Ricciardo won just once in 2016 but was owed two more. Formula One's race calendar for 2016 looks set for another radical change. 2016 F1 season driver rankings 1: Ricciardo